Every Time I Fall! Poem by Umasree Raghunath

Falling down the cradle
Taught me to my first sitting
Falling down from the seat
Made me take my first crawl
Falling down from my first step
Taught me to walk ahead
Falling down from the steps
Made me climb the ladders up

Coming second in the running race
Made me aim higher for the first place
Lagging behind in the scorecards
Made me work hard for the ranks
Challenges that threaten me true
Brought in me vibrant courage's new
Turbulences that we always face
Make our skies clear after the storms

Every fall is a beginning to a new rise
Every challenges is a subtle chances in guise
For every fall that we have in due course
Be sure of a new dawn and a new sunrise.
Hard work, perseverance and faith
The only ingredients that bring in the change
A change towards a better tomorrow
Letting us cross the ferocious winds of today